For further information contact:
Name: Molly Pardoe
Institution: Safe Tairawhiti Communities Co ordinator
Address: PO Box 691
City: Gisborne
Country: New Zealand
Phone +64 6 867 8463 Fax: +64 6 867 1826
E-mail: mollypardoe@xtra.co.nz

Info address on www for the community as a whole: www.gdc.govt.nz

 The programme covers the following safety promotion activities:

For the age group

Children 0-14 years:

• Swim for Life
• Child restraints
• KidStart
• Firewise
• Youth graffiti
• Footsteps to Feeling Safe
• Parenting Through Separation
• Supervised Contact for Children
• Parenting
• Plunket  - child restraints
• Fire Service  - juvenile fire settlers/Te Kotahitanga programme
• TRONP – whanau D&A
• Housing – safe whanau
• Police – safe environments
• ACC – injury prevention

Youth 15-24 years:

• Fresh Start
• Youth drinking & driving 
• Family violence
• Abuse
• Suicide
• Depression
• Learner driver licence programmes
• Host Responsibility Programmes
• Boy Racer Operations
• Graffiti Art
• REAP – water safety
• YMCA – Fresh Start – petty crime reduction
• Fire Service – youth drinking & driving
• Tairawhiti Youth Voice – graffiti project to reduce petty crime
• TRONP – D & A, family violence
• Tauawhi Men’s Centre – family violence, abuse, suicide, depression

Adults 25-64 years:

• family violence, abuse
• elderly abuse, advocacy
• Women’s Refuge – family violence, abuse
• Tauawhi Men’s Centre – family violence, abuse, suicide, depression

Older Adults 65+ years:

• Turanga Health - tai chi
• Tauawhi Men’s Centre – D & A, abuse, suicide, depression
• ACC – falls
• Tai Chi
• Falls Prevention 

In the following Environments:

Home:

• ACC - injury
• Housing – safety
• Police – safety, crime reduction
• Fire Safety
• Smoke Alarms & Fire Safety
• Home Safety
• Crime Prevention
• Neighbourhood Watch
• Property Offending
• Advocacy for Elderly Abuse
• Parenting and Parenting Through Separation
• Family Support – young people who witness family violence

Traffic:

• Drink driving
• Speed
• Fatigue
• Heavy road users
• Motorcyclists
• Child restraints
• Road safety coalition – police checks
• Learner driver licence
• Police – road crashes, drink driving, speed, fatigue, heavy traffic, motorcyclists
• GDC – road crashes, drinking & driving, speed, fatigue
• ACC – injury
• Plunket – child restraints
• Turanga Health – road crashes, drink & driving, speed, fatigue

Occupational:

• Jukken NZ (JNL) Forestry - accidents, injury
• ACC – workplace injury, accidents
• Dept of Labour – workplace injury, accidents
• Forestry - accidents, injury
• Dept of Labour – workplace injury, accidents

School:

• REAP – water safety
• Fire Service – rural schools , drink & driving
• Water Safety NZ – safety
• Water safety
• Youth drink & driving
• Fire safety

Sports:

• Sports Gisborne – sports injury
• ACC - injury
• YMCA – youth offending (14-17yrs)
• Sports injury
• Youth offending (14-17yrs)

Leisure: 

• Surf Life Saving – water safety
• REAP – Swim for Life – rural water safety
• Water safety
• OSCAR school holiday programme

Other:

• E Tu Elgin – crime prevention, whanau safety
• Ka Pai Kaiti – crime prevention, safe streets, D & A
• Fire Service – Marae fire safety survey/report on findings

Violence prevention (intentional injuries):

• Tairawhiti Abuse Intervention Network (T.A.I.N) family violence, abuse, Drugs and Alcohol
• Women’s Refuge – family violence, child abuse
• Tairawhiti District Health – family violence, child abuse
• Tauawhi Men’s Centre – family violence, abuse, suicide, depression
• TRONP – Drugs and Alcohol
• Neighbourhood Support
• Street By Street
• Family Violence Intervention
• Drug & Alcohol to whanau, hapu and Iwi
• Men’s Support Group
• Women’s Support Group
• Elderly Support Group
• Child Advocacy
• Counseling (men, women and children)
• Anger Management (men and women)
• Stopping Violence programmes 

Suicide prevention (self-inflected injuries):

• Tairawhiti Abuse Intervention Network T.A.I.N.
• Police
• Tauawhi Men’s Centre
• Tairawhiti District Health 

Programmes aiming at “High risk-groups”:

• Police – Street By Street, Neighbourhood Watch, Road Safety Coalition
• Tauwhi Centre – D & A,  Family Violence, Depression, Suicide
• T.A.I.N – Family Violence
• TRONP – Drugs and Alcohol, Violence, Abuse
• E Tu Elgin – Crime Prevention
• Ka Pai Kaiti – Crime Prevention, Drugs and Alcohol, Graffiti
• Fire Service – Juvenile Fire Settlers, Smoke Alarms and Youth drinking & driving
• Tairawhiti Youth Voice – Graffiti reduction
• Tairawhiti District Health – Child abuse, injury
• Drug & Alcohol
• Family Violence
• Depression
• Suicide
• Crime Prevention
• Fire Safety
• Drinking and Driving
• Graffiti Reduction
• Injury Prevention
• Child Abuse
• Family Safety
• Road Safety Coalition
• Neighbourhood Watch
• Marae Safety
• Elderly Abuse

Surveillance of injuries:

There are a number of sources for injury statistics, both those sources mostly referred to are: Injury Prevention research Unit, Statistics NZ, ACC, Ministry of Health, Council surveys, NZ Police, NZ Fire and Various non-government organisations.

Injury Statistics

• During the five-year period 2003-2007, 128 people from Gisborne District died as a result of an injury an annual average of 26. This equates to a crude rate of 55.8 per 100,000 people.
• Significantly more males (72%, n=92, crude rate: 82.3/100,000) were fatally injured than females (28%, n=36, crude rate: 30.7/100,000).
• During this period, older adults 70 years and older have the highest rate and frequency of injury fatalities, followed by young people aged 15-19 years.  Children aged 5-14 years have the lowest rate and frequency of injury fatalities, followed by adults aged 60-69 years.
• Motor Vehicle Traffic crashed was the leading cause of injury death, followed by falls.
• During the five-year period 2005-2009, 3,885 people from Gisborne District were hospitalised overnight for treatment of an injury, an annual average of 777.  This equates to a crude rate of 1,609.7 per 100,000 people.
• During this period, adults 70 years and older have the highest rate and frequency of injury hospitalisations.  Young people aged 15-24 years have the next highest rate and frequency of injury hospitalizations.
• Slightly more males (59%, n=2,299, crude rate: 2,052.9/100,000) than females (41%, n=1,586, crude rate: 1,346.5/100,000) were hospitalised for 24 hours or more following an injury event.
• Falls were the leading cause of injury hospitalisation.

Analysis of Gisborne District Police Crime statistics, including Alco-Link data, demonstrates that alcohol is a significant contributing factor to crime and motor vehicle traffic crashes in the Eastern District, with alcohol featuring in up to 75% of all Police attended incidents.  An internal review of fatal motor vehicle crashes also demonstrates that 35% of these crashes have involved alcohol. 

International commitments:

• Hosted Site Visit for Professor Leif Svanstrom 1999
• 17^th International Safe Community Conference in Christchurch 2008

• Attendance at National ISC Forum in Auckland on 23 August 2009
• Attendance at National ISC Forum in Wellington 15th November 2010

Safe Communities Staff

Number:  0.5 FTE (plus volunteer time from all partner agencies)
Professions: part-time and full-time: Working group members represent NZ Police,  Gisborne District Council,  Housing NZ, Turanga Health, NZ Fire Service,  Te Runanga o Ngati Porou, Tairawhiti Abuse Intervention Network (TAIN) and Tairawhiti District Health.
Organisation: Tairawhiti Safe Community
Specific intersectoral leadership group: Safe Tairawhiti Communities Trust
General public health/health promotion group: Tairawhiti District Health, and Te Runanga o Ngati Porou.